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One if the ways in which Muscat is like England is that many of the restaurants are Indian, the difference is that all the other places seem to be equally good and tend to be of various middle eastern traditions, Lebanese probably prevailing. If culinary tourism is your thing, you'd be hard pressed to beat Oman. On the other hand very few of the town restaurants are licenced, so if you want wine with your meal you generally have to go to one of the many 4/5 star hotels, which tend to lack the colour of the places like this one.

I first thought this restaurant in the Ruwi district of Muscat was called rainbow, which was displayed in large colourful letters across the front, I then thought that there must be a very successful chain of these places, since there's loads of them. Finally I discovered that Rainbow is a band of condensed milk that lots of Muscat Indian restaurants promote, so I've no idea what it was called, but it just across the square from the main mosque in Ruwi, and like every Muscat place I tried, really excellent.